President-elect Donald Trump's aide recently suggested that he will not pursue a probe of Hillary Clinton’s private email server in an effort to help her “heal,” said a top Trump adviser.

Trump himself declared, "I don't want to hurt the Clintons; I really don't."

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Earlier, adviser Kellyanne Conway strongly signaled to congressional Republicans that they should abandon their years of vigorous probes of Clinton's email practices and actions at the time of the terror attacks in Benghazi, Libya. "If Donald Trump can help her heal, then perhaps that's a good thing," she told reporters at Trump Tower in New York.

But some of his conservative supporters strongly disagreed.

If Trump's appointees do not follow through on his pledge toinvestigate Clinton for criminal violations, "it would be a betrayal ofhis promise to the American people to 'drain the swamp' of out-of-controlcorruption in Washington," said the group Judicial Watch.

Conway said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that Trump is"thinking of many different things as he prepares to become the presidentof the United States, and things that sound like the campaign aren't amongthem."

It wasn't immediately clear whether Conway was referring only tocongressional investigations, or additionally to the Justice Department. FBIDirector James Comey has declared on two occasions there is no evidencewarranting charges over her use of a private email account. Justice Departmentinvestigations are historically conducted without the influence or input of theWhite House.

Last week, however, Trump told CBS’s “60 Minutes” that he would think about whether to look more into Clinton’s homebrew email server and the Justice Department’s decision to not recommend charges against her.

During his campaign, Trump vowed to put Hillary Clinton “in jail” over the matter.